Improvement in lamp-burners



B. F. FLINT.

LAMP-BURNER. No'.176,850. Patented May 2,1876. v

N-PETERS, PHOTOLITNOQRAFNER. WASHINGTON. l7v C- UNITED STATES PATENTQFFICE.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLINT, OF WESTFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,850, dated May 2,1876; application tiled March 25, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. FLINT, of Westfield, in the county ofTioga and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and ImprovedLamp-Burner, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a top view; and Fig. 2,a vertical transverse section of the same on line a; 00, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to provide the burners of coal-oil andother lamps with an improved device for removing the snuff or burnedpart of the lamp-wicks, in convenient manner, without extinguishing thelight and requiring the taking off of "the chimney; and

' the invention consists of a spring and hook shaped cutter or shade,that is carried by a suitable lever device over the same.

In the drawing, A represents a lamp-burner, of any suitableconstruction; 0, the Wick-tube, and B a flat hook-shaped blade orcutter, that is arranged to pass across the upper end of the wick-tube,so as to remove or cut off the snuff or burned parts of the Wick. Thesnuffing-bladeB is formed at the upper end of a bent lever, B, thatpasses by its middle part vertically through the perforated bottom plateof the same, andis then .bent outwardly, and

carried several times over the wick afterthe same has been turned down,so that the burned part only projects above the wick-tube, the snuii'erremoving the burned part of the wick evenly, without extinguishing theblaze and without removing the chimney. The wick may thus be freed ofthe burned portions at any. moment in a very neat and convenient manner,and thereby a clearer and brighter light obtained. The irregular cuttingof the wick and the unequal flame and cracking of the chimney are alsoavoided by this simple attachment.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patcut- The combination, with wick-tube, of the flathook-shaped and swinging blade B, provided with a superposed spring, D,the whole arranged substantially as and for the purpose specified.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FLINT. Witnesses:

N. W. MCNAUGHTON, W. H. PARSONS.

